-indroj^gon.] cLXxiii. GRAMINB.S!. (J. D. Hooker.) 191 



Sim scTeml feet high, stout, terete, leafy, quite smooth. Leaves 1 J ft. or more 



tu "*' ^^^' ^^^^^ "^'°» many- nerved, beneath and midrib quite smooth, base 

 p't "l"[™cted ; sheath terete, smooth, glabrous ; h'gule a ridge of minute hairs. 

 "«£[« 6 by 2\ in., peduncle stout as thick as a duck's quill ; rachis stout, terete ; 

 winchM very unequal, longest 2-3 in., each with usually 2-3 spikes. Sessile 

 ^ x«iet*, callus J^ in. ; gl. I 4.nerred, polished ; II 2-lobed, awn as long as itself, 

 "^msnotcihate; III oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 2-nerved; III the linear hyaline 

 pervert eciiiate base of the awn. Pedicelled spikelets pale green, pedicels sparsely 



iioM on tbe margins and back with short rufous hairs, unequal, J and i shorter 

 J 1 *®**^'^ Bpikelet ; gl. I narrowed into an awn often as long as itself, lateral 

 dli»u TT°Q ^'^^ "''^ submarginal; II and III lanceolate, acuminate, retrorsely 

 J«;„l , "®"^'^ m a-nerved.— The specimen in Herb. WaUich consists of a 



l^iei-tl " I • * ^°°* '°°&' * panicle fully emerged from a leaf-sheath, with 

 « Ham It ''^x?' ^^'''^ ^^^^ probably spread later on, and several leaves. Another 

 related to * ^^^^*""™ (now at Edinburgh) corresponds precisely. It is nearly 

 aore nnmp '"' j * " "^^^^ ^^^"^^^ *«'^ Pla°t, the branches of the panicle are much 

 •Pikeletg n, u ^ '""ger, the leaves glabrous and not spinuloaely margined, the 

 •Pikdet pTv t^*""' *^^ ^'"""s shorter, and the margins of gl. II of the sessUe 



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may prove to be a form of A. verticillatus. 



§§ Glumes I and II of pedicelled spikelets both auoned. 



«l»bronf"' ^'S-htianus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 395 ; leaves linear acute 

 »clii8ftT„fl pubescent spinuloaely serrulate, lower sheaths compressed, 

 loDedPrn,.! '^ ,^^ °f P*°icle minutely hairy, sessile spikelets i in., callus 

 ^DcaS !^^i, ^^"^^ *^^ '■o"^^. gl- I laterally compressed above, minutely 

 keel an^ «^i^ °^ ^^^^^ hispid above, II long-awned hispid above on the 

 aach lot.lvfl^'^^^^ I^ 2-21 in., pedicelled spikelets lanceolate pubescent 

 397; bJI 1^" *^^ '«^«^^«- ^- aristulatus, ^o^/4si. ea- 5^e«<i. Sm. Oram 

 ChrysoSn ^""T- ^««^»-op. 656. A. breviaristatas, Steud. I.e. 396. 

 ^«'«& z^''^^^''"' ^'9^^ <^o.t. n. 1805 (non ^fewti.). C Wigbtianus, 

 ^•Op^fia''-^ f^.9'^' <^'«'' n. 1676. JTerfe. 3398. Rhaphis onentahs, 

 Goi. a l^g- g^- B. Wightianus, Nees ex Steud. I. c— Chrysopogon, Wall. 



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-''"^^ isdciZ^^\ Gtrij^tt. &c. NiiaHiBi HitLS, 5cAm/i, Xunize. Bttema, 

 - Vari^Se i^'t^^TBiB. Anam. . . * f 



""^P'lg stock r ' ^^^™« 8^ort or tall, erect or ascending from a short stout 

 S'l *ith Sim ^v ^~^° ^°-' '•'g'd> from glabrous to pubescent on both surfaces 

 '^"^^ 3 5 b'\*^^"'=^«-^««ed hairs ; sheath glabrous j ligule very short, villous. 

 E^ or brol'jr"' o**'*^^' lo^er branches long! few in a whorl. Si).fe«* sohtary, 

 ^r^y l.nrjfj* ,.*«*«'^* spikeleti subcylindric ; callus long, hairs rusty ; gl- X 

 f;?"W nf ;'P 2-dentate; H chartaceous, tip 2-Iobed, awn as long as he 

 J"^ C ci," ^'«ear-oblong, 2.nerved, ciliate ; iV awn with a narrowly dilated 

 ftiM^.-T*' column hiBni-<i D„j.-..77.j ' ..,..7^-' i„ i Jr. . nedicel truncate, 



r'f^Ds sliortb V 1, ^"^P'^' Pedicelled spikelets nearly i m. ; Pf'ce. -;"'-";' 

 £• *<*'« c S TT "f ' ^^- ^ gl'^brous or pubescent. 7-nerved, awn longer than the 

 2°°^. 2-6e ;S' i^ anceolate, 3-nerved, awn as long as the gl. or shorter ; III 

 yS"»«'i ^iZh'.^'^^ ' ^^ ^«^y «a"ow, ciliate. nerveless.-I h^ve seen no Cey bn 

 ^^ *•» W, Pt^'"« 5 Thwaites' C.P. n. 32i8 in Herb. Kew. is a starved specimen 

 ■ ■ ^ • JMor have I seen Burmese or Anam ones. 



l5"^" di;tfcW*''***Py"«8. HooTc.f.', stem stout fastigiately branched 

 •^^. PaS e T «^«cfco-patent narrowly linear rigid smooth, sheaths 

 ^^tJi with . '^.W-Peduncled ^arrJw, branches very nneqaal erect 

 f '^ly villot^^f, '"'•"^^'^^ «Pike, sessile Spikelets i in. callus elongate 

 i*»of^i;f^« all ronnd, glj 2-cn8pidate quite glab'-^^^' .,", ^V^^^S 

 *^-^ glabrous 7' """ pedicelled spikelets longer than the sessile lanceolate, 



'-nerved keels ciUate at the tip only. 





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